The George Kuchar Reader

George Kuchar

An expansive anthology of the writings that underscored George Kuchar’s work and life, featuring a wide range of ephemera alongside critical and autobiographical writings by the late underground auteur.

Rêve Parisien

Rhys Chatham

Do You Love Me

Lutz Bacher

An artist book obliquely surveying the artist’s work and herself from the 70s to the present, via a series of personal interviews conducted by Bacher on herself with the curators, assistants, and friends she has worked with throughout the years.

Berlin and Phenomena

Wolf Vostell

Ritual: A Book of Primitive Rites and Events

Jerome Rothenberg

A collection of event scores and descriptions adapted from a range of ethnographic sources, Ritual also implicitly functions as an examination of the contemporary Happenings scene in an expanded historical and anthropological context.

Popular Entertainments

Philip Corner

Chance-Imagery

George Brecht

The influential essay by Brecht, which frames examinations of the use of chance methods in Dada, Surrealism, Pollock, and Cage in a discussion of parallel historical developments in the sciences and elsewhere.

How to Make a Happening

Allan Kaprow

Coffee Coffee

Aram Saroyan

Infamous artist book by one of the 1960s’ most controversial poets. Aram Saroyan’s Coffee Coffee was originally published as a mimeographed edition by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer on their 0 To 9 press in 1967.